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Many of us do not have the problems you face/d because we used other solutions, although I can't comment on the latest MAC OS I am confident, I still have half a dozen workarounds. Regards Tony On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 2:35:27 PM UTC+10, Sebastian Theilhaber wrote: > > Oh man do I hear you... > > I used to use the file backup from pmario and it's worked for me for > years, however, broke to the point that effectively I had to click through > to save the file- and backup-save every time by hand. > > That however completely broke down when moving on to FF74 (I'm a fan of > up-to-date-apps). > > However, I found that: > A) closing tiddlers / build-in save-function reliably saves the file every > single time, > B) hitting "command-s" (since it's a Mac), choosing the "right" > backup-file to replace + enter does it just as well. In fact with > considerably less hassle. > > I use the "tower of Hanoi"-method with backups from A to E and just tick > off the on a piece of paper. > > Far from ideal (and I find amazing to think that such a great piece of > software lacks THIS really really - from the consumer perspective, because > that's all I CAN be - functionality) but it works well enough for me, in > fact better than the extension... > > I have been at the brink of "leaving TW behind" a number of times over the > years ONLY because of that. > Only reason (at times) I didn't: no competitor for me (running a server > for a wiki or so is not an option for me). > I have invested A LOT of time in "my" file. It's become very dear and I > take no chances as far as backups are concerned. > I'm also backing up the backups, believe me, you do not ever want to be in > that kind of pain to lost this much of work.... > > Hope that helps. > > On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 8:33:51 PM UTC+11, Norm Davis wrote: >> >> Edited again: 3-22-2020 After getting a storm of notifications on tiddler >> regarding saving tiddly files I decided to see what's actually going on. >> >> On https://tiddlywiki.com/ Getting Started I found everything I needed >> to know. I upgraded 5.1.14 to 5.1.21 here >> https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html without a problem. I routinely use >> Tiddly desktop but also have Timmi and Node.js (which is confusing & >> complicated to me, so I stick with what I know) >> >> When I originally posted here Firefox had just destroyed their browser, >> v57 leaving the Tiddly team in a mess. They have since resolved these >> issues x10. Firefox and Chrome both are have chosen to develop their >> browsers in a number of ways not friendly to folks who create add-ons or >> products like Tiddlywiki. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/43ac9884-9fd5-42ea-89af-2ebe8637adb0%40googlegroups.com.
